Fall from grace
The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea. By Yukio Mishima. King Penguin, 1982. 143 pp, $7.95 (paperback). This volume, re-issued as a King Penguin paperback, may be slender, but its subject matter is hardly slight. Mishima deals with death, development, and dreams in his descriptively mannered style. Neatly lyrical images skilfully counterpoint the gruesome plottings of a group of precocious schoolboys. Number three in the group is Noboru who prepares a “charge-sheet” against the naval officer Ryuji when he begins an affair with the boy’s mother, Fusako. The mechanations of the group’s plotting for revenge bring a macabre twist to this subtly evocative story.— Janetta Mackay.
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Press, 7 May 1983, Page 20
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